The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-11-15

Ilucinel IN the purileuS TGtOu Ho0t tie city.
Then came the cool. deliberate dynamite eN-
periments 10y carefully selected masked repre-
sentativeS in the woods SkllihG the suburbs.
Later Oh, secluded in the quiet oi downtown
back rooms.
DARK CoNCLAyEs
OF Wild idead but brahy, un>crupulous leaders
eagerly discussed as their long coveted oppor-
tunity the iust-beginnmg Development Of the
WoikinSSlan concerted movement Tor uni
form eght-hour day
turned into riots, how the entire world was
startled BY the blood-chilling bomb mas
sacre i'll the Haymarket, then the ma
gestc state trial, the amazing
braYado of the one American defendant, the
horribly grotesque marriage of another of the
prisonerS-every detail of these strange occur
rences and the extraordinary train succeeding,
now presents itself again as il the whole had
passed hut yesterday
The keynote of it all is found in the plat
form Of
THE MYSTERIOUS I. 4. A.
International Arbeiter (Workingmen's as
ISOLATION of which organization Angus
Spies and his seven co-defendants were leadt
ing members and upholderS. In the interna-
tonal platform it is urged that ''the present
system under which property is owned by in
dividualS should be destroyed, and that all
capital which has been produced by labor
should be transformed into common property
by force" Eighty groups" of this dan
gefous association existed in the United
States, chiefly at the great industrial centres,
Chicago alone being the ill-starred possessor
OF seven Only a portion of the members
We're armed. yet the number of this class i'll
Chicago exceeded $3.50, every man of whom
attended regular military drills, had his own
rifle and revolver, and could obtain
DYNAMITE AND BOMBS
Tor the asking. The marmed members of the
groups were constantly in contact with their
armed brethren and in hearty sympathy with
their purposes and their principles 1t was
this compact, well-disciplined ]. A. A. that
had for its organs three now noted newspapers
the Arbeiter Ieitung, the Alarm and the
Anarchist. Excepting handsome, youthful
Louis Lining, who, though taking a conspicu-
Gus part, was mere acting agent, each of
THE EIGHT HAYMARKET DEFENDANTS
was directly connected with one Of these Pc
pers.
August Spies, a keen, cynical Hessian, with
the subtle intellectual vigOr of an Iago, was
editor-in-chief of the Arbeiter The iaunty,
dare devil little Texan, Albert II. Parsons,
brother OF a confederate general, presided over
the Alarm. AT the head of the Anarchist,
George Engel another Hessan, but of a coarse,
brutal type, out-Heroded the most blood thirsty
utterances of his compeers While Sam
Fielden the Englishman, sullen looking
shaggy and forbidding, but an agitator simp-
ly volcanic, and Oscar Neebe the polished, at
tractive Gorman-American organizer were
more especially concerned in other than jour
naliStic branches of the propaganda, they We're
nevertheless, among the directors respectively
of the Alarm and the Arbeiter Zeitung. This
gaunt Bavaran Michael Schwab was Spies's
assistant editor, and his fellow-countrynan
Adolph Fisher, he of the poisoned dagger, was
the Arbeiters head foreman.
Not one Of these men-howeyer they might
Sylit hairs, could candidly deny that he was in
strumental TO greater or less degree in help
ing on the catastrophe at the Haymarket, OF
the legal guilt of each nothing need be said
further than that its certainty was put to tests
seldom if ever paralleled.
During the long months preceding the bomb
throwing the defendants, one and all, We're in
Cessantly active in
AGITATING AND ORGANIZING
in demonstrations" and experiments"
Their speeches and articles fairly brstled with
imprisoned appeals for the laboring people to
provide themselves with firearms and dyna-
mite. Specific instructions were given how to
handle and use the explosive, and how to make
bombs and how to procure weapons. All this
was stated by the conspirators TO be making
ready for the coming ''social revolution. +" What
was meant by "soeial revolution" was not left
to be vaguely inferred, nor was the time when
it was to be inaugurated a dim uncertainty of
the future. The revolution" was frequently
defined in speech and writing as a sudden,
bloody, forcible upheaval of the right of pr-
vate ownership of property, then the bringing
about of state of society in which all property
should be held in common.
Incredible as it may seem, the ayowed pur-
pose was
of the property owning classes, first destroying
the police and militia, who were deridcd as
their special champions. The period of CON
fusion developing from the mammoth strikes
of the first of May, 1886, was definitely an
nounced months before as the time when the
fearful bolt should fall. Pitiless as was this
programme and difficult as a belief is that it
ever was contemplated by men, the facts as
stated were abundantly proven in court.
The diabolism was fully shared III by wo-
men. Especially so was this the case in the
FANTASTIC PUBLIC DEMONSTRATIONS
like the red-fag professions of ragamuflins
with torches that attempted at night to enter
the magnificent new Board Of Trade when
the dedication festivities of the institution had
for the time being transformed the huge
building into a scene of social brilliance with
out a local precedent. The repulsiye, bias
phcming inuuders of both sexes were stern
ly forced back at the muzzies OF three dozen
police reVOlYcrS. In affairs like This tbe duSlzy
wife Of Parsons and other no less desper-
ate women seemed IN their proper clement
OF the many other queer outbreaks preceding
the Haymarket tragedy. the most startling at
the time perhaps, was the parade Thanksgiv-
ing day, when in lidicule of President Cleye-
lands proclamation nearly a thousand uncOuth
men and women Of the slums, headed by ban
ners of black and red, traveTsed the Choice res
ldence avenues wildly yelling and soothing at
the woll-dressed people who crowded to the
windows, anxious TO learn the of tUnult.
The city authorities affected. for some
reason, TO ignore all ebullitims Of the mob. As
result Of this
OFFICIAL INDIFFERENCE,
whom the time came at last for the eight hour
labor disturbances and the Simultaneous IN
auguration Of the secreuy-cherishcd ''revolu-
ton, tho anarchists were q power indeed, and
the police were ignorant OF danger. 1t Is true
that the Chicago papers contained timely in
timatOns of the plots, but owing TO the pecu-
liar attitude of the high municipal authori-
ties, the articles were treated Is rank scnsa-
tionalism.
just one day before the time set for the
strikes Louis Lingg, the bomb-maker, slipped
into his lodgings a heavy, suspioious-looling
box, three feet III length. The box contained
a large invoice of dynamite. Its delivery at =.
Lingg's lodgings was the first immediate prep
aration for
THE BLOODY RESULT
of five days later. For many weeks previous
Lingg had been purchasing and experimenting
with dynamite as the paid agent Of one Of the
seven International GROUPS" but subsequent
events showed beyond any reasonable doubt
that this particular explosive made the bomb
that was heard round the world. The bomb,
with fifty others manufactured BY Lin2g under
the auspices Of the international association,
which furnished the money, and of which the
celebrated defendants were not members sim
NV but lpalprq